1 The gerrison
2 and guns of
3 Lahore entire~
4 ly under the
5 British.
6 Place amply
7 provided.
8 The latter
9 causes some
10 delay of the
11 Commander-
12 in-chief at
13 Lahore,
14 Sir Charles
15 Napier's ar-
16 rival at La-
17 hore.
18 The troops
19 drawn out for
20 his inspection.
21 The grand
22 sight.
23 222 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
24 In order to prevent any sudden insurrection on
25 the part of the disaffected Sikh Sirdars and their
26 followers, the guns belonging to the fort of Lahove -
27 were put in possession of the British; and to
28 secure comfort for the troops, European and Na-
29 tive, a plentiful supply of grain and ‘other articles
30 of food was laid in by the commissariat. The time
31 occupied in this, detained the Commander-in-chief
32 and the European regiments at Lahore until the
33 23rd of March, when this portion of the army of the
34 Sutlej with their gallant chief left Lahore, and re-
35 crossed the Sutlej on the 26th at the Nuggur Ghat
36 by means of an excellent bridge erected there by
37 Major F. Abbot, Lieutenant Goodwyn, and other
38 engineer officers.
39 We must not omit to mention that Sir Charles
40 Napier, the governor of Scinde, reached Lahore
41 in time to witness the final settlement of the
42 treaty. j
43 The army of the Sutlej was drawn up for Sir
44 Charles’s inspection, and among the other regi-
45 ments then present was his own, the gallant 50th
46 or Queen’s Own. He was introduced to it by the
47 Governor-general; and his feelings on the occasion
48 were so overpowering, that he could scarcely ad-
49 dress the companions of many a hard-fought battle
50 in the Peninsula. It was a noble sight to see the
51 whole army march past, with the huge elephants
52 dragging the siege gunsin front. It might well recall
53 the days of Porus with his hundreds of majestic
54 elephants, harmless as they were, however, compared